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Re: Cleanup of option help strings


From: Eric Sunshine
Subject: Re: Cleanup of option help strings
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 03:18:28 -0500

On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 11:34:30 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I've noticed that some of the --enable- and --with- options added by the
> additional autoconf macros in m4/ format and/or align their help
> strings inconsistently with the rest of the configure --help output.
> The attached patch cleans that up.
> - Align vertically with other options where possible (of course).
> - At least two spaces between left and right side.

This code should be using AC_HELP_STRING (or AS_HELP_STRING in most recent  
Autoconf) to format the help strings automatically, rather than doing the  
formatting manually (which is not robust).

--- ES




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